Anders P. Moller, A. P. Mller, Anders Pape M?ller

Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This informative book details the important effects sexual selection has on barn swallow mating behavior, mating competition, parental care, host-parasite interactions, and migration strategies. The first two chapters present a concise, insightful review of the two main components of sexual selection theory--male-male competition and female choice. Citing evidence from the author's long-term field work on the monogamous barn swallow, subsequent chapters investigate the advantages held by males with colorful plumage and by females who are choosy when selecting a mating partner. In his exploration of the roles of behavior, ecology, morphology, genetics, and evolution, Moller provides an invaluable synthesis of barn swallow mating behavior research. Students and researchers of ecology, animal behavior, ornithology, and evolutionary biology will welcome this book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780198540281
• ISBN-10: 0198540280
• Artikelnr.: 22301114

Inhaltsangabe

1.: Introduction
2.: Models of sexual selection and monogamy
3.: The study organism
4.: Male mating advantages
5.: Benefits of mate choice
6.: Determinants of tail ornament size
7.: Advantages of early arrival
8.: Options for unmated males
9.: Parasites and sexual selection
10.: Parental care and male ornamentation
11.: Sperm competition and sexual selection
12.: Sexual size dimorphism and female ornaments
13.: Geographic variation in ornament size
14.: Synthesis
References
Author index
Subject index
Taxonomic index